by Andrew Craig, History During the second week of HIST 3095: History of Southern Food—the course I’m serving as a WIP TA for this semester—I asked students to complete a written survey rating their comfort level with different aspects of writing a history research paper. On a scale of 1 through 5, students ranked their…
by Andrew Lott, Mathematics When someone asks about my plan for the future, I tell them I hope to do research in math. Many people think all of math has been established. But it is a vast subject, and, as the cliché goes, the more I learn, the more I understand how little I know.…
by Morgan McArthur, biology GLA As an undergraduate engineering student, writing assignments always seemed like a chore to me. “Why should I spend a few hours writing when my equations show the results right here?” That line of thinking persisted until the final year of my undergraduate program when I was taking my senior design…
by Samantha Cauthorn After completing my first semester as a WIP teaching assistant and my third semester as a TA involved in coaching high-stakes writing assignments, I thought it would be useful to reflect upon my own experience in this discursive space. When thinking about what to blog about I was initially drawn towards picking…